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ADHD and Trauma: Star Trek has always been a safe place for the neurodivergent.
For decades, clinicians working with neurodivergent populations have screamed for at least some acknowledgment of how unresolved childhood trauma impacts behavior in adulthood. The APA DSM paid lip service to this issue about eight years ago and has gradually increased its recognition of the effects of unresolved childhood trauma, but it still falls woefully short. Star […]
The Missed Steve Jobs Story: A Path to Empathy
The Missed Steve Jobs Story: A Path to Empathy The big swing and miss in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs is his portrayal of Jobs's journey to empathy during the 1990s. There is another perspective, as shared by retired Pixar Animation Studios executive Dr. Ed Catmull. Steve Jobs’ journey to expressing empathy Backstory It […]
Losing a Generation to the Screen: An Educator’s View from the Front Lines of the Sleep Crisis
During my tenure teaching mathematics at Poinciana High School, our campus achieved a remarkable turnaround, elevating our school grade from a C to an A. But as a teacher, true success isn't just measured by institutional data—it’s measured by the human beings sitting in your rows. With my principal’s full backing, I began investigating a […]
The Anatomy of an Edge: Kurt Cobain, ADHD, and the Physics of Rejection
Kurt Cobain remembered the dividing line. There was the childhood before his parents divorced, and there was everything that came after it. “I had a really good childhood, until the divorce,” he recalled as an adult. Afterward, his “whole world” changed. He remembered the shame of coming from a broken family and desperately wanting the […]
The Ancestral Shield: Why I Step Into the Mud to Serve and Protect
In the sterile, corporate vocabulary of modern education and athletics, success is often treated as a technical exercise. People talk about pedagogy, scaffolding, executive function, and behavioral modification as if guiding a young mind or building an athletic team is a mechanical process of input and output on a spreadsheet. But for my non-linear, hyper-connected mind, those […]